Shunning the New Jersey suburbs in 1969, he set up a pay-what-you-can practice on the blighted Lower East Side and for three decades was a hero to the poor.
Source: New York Times
Joseph I. Kramer, the ‘Country Doctor’ of Avenue D, Dies at 96
Published in Deaths (Obituaries), Doctors, Kramer, Joseph I and Lower East Side (Manhattan, NY)
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